Our Amazon Development Center in Gdansk is home to a variety of teams that deliver innovative solutions powering Amazon products and services around the world.

Located in one of the most progressive regions of Poland, the Gdansk Development Center offers exceptional opportunities to grow your technical and non-technical skills by working on exciting and challenging projects.

Teams of developers and researchers work on revolutionizing the way users interact with Amazon products and services. We focus on distributed systems and technologies such as Text-to-Speech and Natural Language Understanding to make a real difference to customers by inventing, enhancing, and building world-class software. Our work is large-scale and complex, and it demands invention. We offer great opportunities to work on big data, machine learning, and high-scale, low-latency distributed systems. We use a wide variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript; Open Source technologies such as Linux, Ruby on Rails, and AngularJS; and Amazon’s world-leading AWS platform.

Looking for an Internship? Interning at Amazon is a great way to develop your professional skills and learn about our company culture. During your internship, you will own the strategy and execution of one or multiple projects that impact our customers. To help support your growth and ability to deliver on your project, all interns will benefit from skill-development training, cohort-based learning environments, mentorship, and peer-delivered presentations. Have a look at our internship opportunities here.

Meet our teams based in Amazon Development Center Poland

The Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Serviceteam builds and maintains cloud services that allow Alexa and AWS LEX to understand human language. We are a passionate team focused on building complex, large-scale, resilient distributed services. Our services process machine-learning models for millions of Alexa conversations. We collaborate closely with a number of Alexa teams to supply the best Alexa language understanding experience to customers.

The Alexa Hybrid Engine team in Gdansk is part of the larger Alexa Speech team. We believe that voice is the simplest, most natural way to communicate, and we have a mission to make Alexa available everywhere including offline and in-car. Take Alexa with you anywhere! Curious to learn about low-latency programming, and how to write highly optimized code? Join the team responsible for the core Alexa engine.

The Alexa Text-to-Speech (TTS) Features team makes Alexa speak and sound as natural as a human being. Our team implements new features to let Alexa skill developers use a rich variety of mechanisms to deliver the exceptional experience to Alexa users. We make sure that Alexa cloud-based voice service is available on tens of millions of devices from Amazon and third-party device manufacturers. With our service, Alexa skill developers can build natural voice experiences that offer customers a more intuitive way to interact with the technology they use every day.

In the TTS Software Methods & Practices team, we develop end-to-end testing frameworks for Text-to-Speech Engine & SDK to support new features and use cases, provide tracking of features and tests, enable owners of all components to contribute to the regression test suite, allow assessment of feature coverage, and provide readable and quickly addressable results. We drive the adoption of software development methods and practices that make delivering products a frictionless and predictable process.

The TTS On-device team delivers quality voices to Amazon devices like Amazon Fire Tablets, Amazon Fire TVs and Kindle eReaders, to allow visually impaired users to use those devices in accessibility mode. Our goal is to bring new developments in TTS technology to mobile platforms and deliver a human-like TTS experience.

The Amazon TTS Voices and Languages team develops and maintains the Amazon TTS voices. The team applies deep learning techniques to enable Alexa and Amazon Polly TTS voices to interpret and pronounce texts accurately and lifelike, for a variety of use cases.
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The Amazon Polly team turns text into lifelike speech through the AWS Text-to-Speech Service, allowing developers to create applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Our team extends the customer-facing service capabilities such as API, Console, and SDKs. We are building a solution with dozens of lifelike voices, across a variety of languages, where customers/developers can select the ideal voice and build speech-enabled applications that work in many different countries. Curious to learn more about Polly? Visit the AWS Blogs for developers and watch our Polly Tech Talk.

The Compliance Operations team (C-OPS) is a part of Health and Safety Sustainability Security and Compliance (HS3C) organization in Amazon. We are meticulous about the safety of our customers and relentlessly advocate for and ensure the health, safety, and security of our associates, partners, and suppliers. We are responsible for ensuring that product and services sold by Amazon meet regulations. The C-Ops team is responsible for conducting operational and transactional task for HS3C. We have been performing classification and vendor support functions in all Amazon marketplaces for Restricted Product, Dangerous Goods, Product Safety and Global Trade & Direct Import programs.

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We are looking for Software Development Engineers and Managers and Linguists to design and implements solutions that impact millions of customers around the globe. Check out our current opportunities below.

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Did you know? The Amazon Development Centre Poland is the proud organizer of Innovation@Amazon, a yearly technical conference held in Gdansk, to hear from our top-notch engineers about the most recent updates on Amazon’s products and solutions like Amazon Web Services, Machine Learning, IoT, Amazon Game Studios, and Amazon Alexa. Visit innovation-amazon.com to learn more about past years' editions.

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